Ten days with the iPad.
Here she is, with 3G!
Here are my pluses and minuses.
Minuses:
- AT&T network: How would they know that I would pick up the iPad and head off to Montana where I can only get some partner’s Edge network? Very slow. Not the time to download apps. Some apps just don’t work
- AT&T network, while in the car in Wyoming: No network there either
Beautiful country/no 3G
- Apps that are just ported over from the iPhone: They seem sad! In the little box surrounded by a sea of black. If you expand them, you think you need new glasses. Blurry.
Pluses:
- Love the size and weight: Workable in most handbags, gym bags, tote bags etc.
The iPad can go with you in a medium-sized purse
- Easier to read than the paper at breakfast: The fun golf article in the Journal is nicer on the iPad than on the big paper when eating cereal. I did a side by side test.
- Quite the co-pilot device in the car: I liked the form factor of the iPad sitting in my lap while I checked ball game scores, golf, directions, client email etc via 3G. I just don’t think this would have been as nice with a laptop and the need to tilt the screen to view and then tilt back to type
Very usable in the car/excellent device for the co-pilot!
- Multimedia experience great: Instead of just reading the BMW article in the paper, I was able to view the video about the car and check out the photos.
- Makes a great mirror: When off, you can definitely apply lipstick. That screen is quite shiny (and full of finger marks)
How about on your end?
